Johnny,
I've read all three of Auster's NY Trilogy. It's the only
thing I've read by him (I've also seen the movie Smoke). The
first was really good. The second did less for me upon first
reading it, stood less easily on its own, but I thought more
of it after reading the third pulled it all together. Quite
impressive overall.
As for other authors messing with the conventions, I
immediately think of Marc Behm's Eye of the Beholder, James
Sallis's Lew Griffin series, Will Christopher Baer's Kiss Me
Judas and Maxim Jakubowski's On Tenderness Express. With the
exception of Sallis, all of these feature unreliable
narrators. Jack O'Connell's books also filter the conventions
through postmodernist theory. None goes as far as Auster,
though. Unlike him, they are all trying to remake the genre
from within.
Mark
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